UNB Detectives in a drive arrested three alleged arms traders along with two firearms and some ammunition at Munshi Bagdanga village in Jessore district town early Friday. Tipped off, a team of Detective Branch (DB) police raided the house of Shahinur Rahman, 30, son of Golam Sardar, and arrested him around 2:45 am, said DB…
UNB Five members of a family, including two children, sustained life threatening burn injuries when a gas stove went up in flames suddenly at a house in the city’s Uttara area on Friday morning. The injured–Shahnewaz, 50, an employee of American Embassy, his wife Sumaiya, 40, their three sons–Shalil, 15, Zarf, 11, and 14-month-old…
UNB Three schoolboys received stab injuries in an attack by miscreants, reportedly over a previous enmity, at Jamsing Moholla in Savar municipality area early Friday. Police, quoting locals said, a group of miscreants swooped on the three boys–Sagar and Rakib, class VII students of Shukurjan Jinnat Ali High School, and Alamin, a class X student…
UNB, Dhaka Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said trade must be given great importance to expedite economic activities of the countries around the world and implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Finance Minister was attending a discussion titled ‘Financing the SDGs’ at the UN headquarters, New York on Wednesday as part of programmes marking…
UNB, Dhaka Green activists here on Thursday demanded legal action against tannery owners if they fail to relocate their factories from the capital’s Hazaribagh to Savar within March 30 next, the latest deadline set by the government. Addressing a press conference, they asked the authorities concerned to cancel the plots allocated to tannery owners for…
Ahmad-ul Kabir Bangladesh High Commission posted the rules and regulations for illegal Banglaeshi workers to become re-registered in Malaysia on Facebook yesterday. Within 6 hours the post was shared more than 500 times. Over a 100 comments were filled with queries about the post. However, the High Commission did not reply to any comment. Phone…
UNB, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday called up on people to help the government to properly and speedily implement development projects in their respective areas. The Prime Minister came up with the call while inaugurating and laying the foundation stones of some 51 projects of various ministries through a videoconferencing from her official…
UNB, Dhaka Singapore has expressed its interest to hire skilled manpower from Bangladesh to meet its growing labour demand. Singapore Manpower Minister LIM Swee Say said this during a meeting with a Bangladesh delegation, led by Expatriates’ Welfare & Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam BSc, in Singapore on Thursday. Swee Say said many foreign workers…
BSS, Khulna The government has launched a Taka 7.61 crore project to protect the environment of the world’s largest mangrove forests of Sundarabnas keeping commercial vessels away from its water channels, officials said here yestarday. Water Development Board (WDB) officials said a major component of the project was aimed to enhance navigability re-excavating 83 channels…
UNB, Dhaka The United Kingdom and its business community can play a very ‘positive and important’ role in Bangladesh’s development stride helping it reach the next level of desired development stage, said a business delegation of the UK on Thursday. “With longstanding friendship and historical relations between the two countries, I think we can play…